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 * Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Codenvy, S.A.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *   Codenvy, S.A. - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.che.ide.ext.java.shared.dto.model;

import org.eclipse.che.dto.shared.DTO;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Represents a type parameter defined by a type or a method
 * in a compilation unit or a class file.
 *
 * @author Evgen Vidolob
 */
@DTO
public interface TypeParameter extends JavaElement {
    /**
     * Returns the names of the class and interface bounds of this type parameter. Returns an empty
     * array if this type parameter has no bounds. A bound name is the name as it appears in the
     * source (without the <code>extends</code> keyword) if the type parameter comes from a
     * compilation unit. It is the dot-separated fully qualified name of the bound if the type
     * parameter comes from a class file.
     *
     * @return the names of the bounds
     */
    List<String> getBounds();

    void setBounds(List<String> bounds);
}
